Paramount is preparing cash-based takeover bid for Warner Bros Discovery

[Jman]

https://www.wsj.com/business/media/paramount-skydance-prepares-ellison-backed-bid-for-warner-bros-discovery-0b921c20?mod=e2tw
 

Asset purchases while the purchasing is good.

[Sketch]

Generally mergers aren't a good thing for the workers of either company and I don't want to diminish that but... hard to imagine Sky Mount will run things worse than Zaslav and Casey Blows

[Blatch]

If this ends up happening, I feel like they would kill off Cartoon Network in one fell swoop, for its value would pale in comparison to Nick. Maybe they make [as] its own channel, maybe they port most of its shows to Comedy Central and the Paramount Network gets Common Side Effects... the usual corpo BS.

[naraku360]

On 9/11/2025 at 10:43 AM, Jman said:

https://www.wsj.com/business/media/paramount-skydance-prepares-ellison-backed-bid-for-warner-bros-discovery-0b921c20?mod=e2tw
 

Asset purchases while the purchasing is good.

 

4 hours ago, naraku360 said:

The worst timeline.

 

[Jman]

23 minutes ago, Blatch said:

If this ends up happening, I feel like they would kill off Cartoon Network in one fell swoop, for its value would pale in comparison to Nick. Maybe they make [as] its own channel, maybe they port most of its shows to Comedy Central and the Paramount Network gets Common Side Effects... the usual corpo BS.

They already ejected the linear channels last month.  But it would leave them high and dry with no source of programming.

[Blatch]

1 hour ago, Jman said:

They already ejected the linear channels last month.  But it would leave them high and dry with no source of programming.

True, but I have heard that Paramount still wants both sides.